René Magritte

Magritte paints ordinary objects with deadpan, flat precision but in impossible combinations — floating men in bowler hats, day-and-night skies, giant apples. Calm, clean, and quietly unsettling.

René Magritte (1898–1967) was a painter from Belgium, associated with Surrealism.

A 20th-century movement of dream logic and the unconscious — impossible, uncanny imagery rendered vividly. Surrealism →